Gourd

Gourd or Calabash Curare. This type, exported in small gourds, is said to be made from Strychnos toxifera Schomb., and this was confirmed by King, who isolated from botanically authenticated material collected in British Guiana, an amorphous, quaternary alkaloid indistinguishable from curarine prepared from gourd curare, and Wieland et al. have isolated from this species alkaloids which they have also found in this type of curare. Other Strychnos spp. from the same territory examined by King contained alkaloids, but not of the curarine type. 

Alkaloids of Goukd ok Calabash Curare. The toxic constituent of this form, as prepared by Boehm, was an amorphous curarine to which the formula C gHjgONj was assigned. Gourd curare has been investigated in recent years by Wieland et aZ. and by Schmid and Karrer. ... 

The material first used by Wieland et al. was gourd curare from the middle Orinoco district, near Urbana, in Bolivar State, Venezuela, but in the fomth paper (1941) results are recorded for curares from Colombia and Venezuela, for which more precise details of origin are not available and there is considerable difference in the nature and quantity of the alkaloids in the various samples used. An examination has also been made of the bark of Strychnos toxifera, and one of the alkaloids (toxiferine II) it contains has been found in some of the curares examined. In all, ten alkaloids have been obtained and characterised and, with the exception of curine, they are all of quaternary type. They are named toxiferine, dihydrotoxiferine, or calabash-curarine (shortened to C-curarine in practice) according to type, and the variants within the type are distinguished by numbers, or numbers and letters, e.g., toxiferine I, toxiferine Ilb. 

The drug varies greatly in activity. The following lethal doses (mg. per kilo) have been recorded for rabbits pot curare 0-8 to 10-0, more commonly 2 to 3 tube curare 5 to 10 gourd curare 1-5 to 8-0, Boehm gave the... 

Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn, I never was so happy since the hour I was born. 

Flaschen-hals, m. neck of a bottle or flask. -inhalt, m. contents of a bottle or flask or gas cylinder, -kappe, -kapsel, /. bottle cap. -kiirbis, m. bottle gourd calabash. -achild n. bottle (flask, etc.) label, -stdpsel, -ver-schluss, m. bottle (or flask) stopper or fastener, -zug, m. set of pulleys, block and tackle. 

Kiirbis, m. gourd pumpkin, -baum, m. gourd tree, calabash tree, -gewachse, n.pl. Cucur-bitaceae. -kom, n., -kern, -samen, m. pumpkin seed gourd seed. 

The traditional way to prepare the beverage is to pour boiling water over the leaves in a gourd. The latter was known as a mate, which is the origin of that term now used to designate the leaf and beverage. A reed or metal straw with a bulb-shaped strainer over the end is used to drink... 

Research concerning the structure, composition, and usefulness of cucurbit seeds (gourds, melons, squash, etc.) is reviewed. Cytological features are typical of those for oilseeds. Composition-ally, decorticated seeds contain by weight 50% oil and 35% protein. The oil is unsaturated and edible however, certain species contain conju-ated trienoic fatty acids (drying oils). 

Figure 2. Scanning electron micrograph of a mesophyll cell of a dormant cotyledon of Buffalo gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima). Tissue was fixed in aqueous glutaraldehyde, dehydrated with ethanol and critically point dried. Note cell wall (W) and intracellular components including protein bodies (P) and emptied spherosomes that appear as a cytoplasmic reticulum.

As with yields of seeds given above, the amount of seed coat per seed varies considerably, anywhere from 18% (C. pepo) to 60% (Lagenaria vulgaris, bottle gourd) (21, 22). IndeecT, seed-coatless lines of C. pepo have little or no coat (TT, 23). 

Recent nutritional evaluations of cucurbit seeds have accentuated the currently popular Buffalo gourd ( . foetidissima) and are shown in Table III. PER (protein efficiency ratio) values of full-fat and natural and autoclaved fat-free meals fed to weanling... 

Gourd, winter squash, pumpkin below, left and right) Cucurbita moschata, C. pepo, C.maxima)... 

Susceptible plants Squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, melons, and gourds. 

Plannery, T. (1998). Throwing Way Leg Tree-kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds On the track of Unknown Mammals in WildestNew Guinea. New York Atlantic Monthly Press. 

CH2 = CH(CH2)8CH20H, C11H22O, Mr 170.29, bp2.ikv 133°C, d 0.8495, 1.4500, was tentatively identified, e.g., in the wax gourd (Benincasa hispida, Cogn.) [13], and is a colorless liquid with a fatty-green, slightly citrus-like odor. It can be synthesized from 10-undecylenic acid and is used to give flower perfumes a fresh note. 

Dufresne, L, A. Desormeaux, J. Bestman-Smith, P. Gourde, M.J. Tremblay, and M.G. Bergeron, Targeting lymph nodes with liposomes bearing anti-HLA-DR Fab fragments. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1999. 1421(2) 284-94. 

Benincase cerifera Savi. B. hispida Cogn. Don Gua (Gourd melon) (fruit, seed) Palmitic acid, stearic acid, linoleic acid, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, ascorbic acid.50 Diuretic, laxative, treat diabetes, dropsy, rhinitis. 

The smoke started the ceremony proper. The Indians are masters of symbolism a few eagle feathers, a pinch of sweet herbs, a little water drum, a gourd rattle, a fire, and little more, are all the aids they need for worship. For them, everything that is, is holy. They have no written prayers, but as... 

A photographer took some flash pictures at about ten or fifteen minutes before midnight, and then I started writing again. The Indians chanted, drummed, and used the gourd... 

The women did not drum, sing or use the gourd rattle, but they smoked, took peyote, and played a large part in the morning ceremony. They also prepared the feast for the next day. Women only very rarely enjoy their highest status among nomadic people. 

The blue-shirted young man who had been weeping said, "Frank, can I have some more medicine " and the little sack was passed along to him. He crunched two more buttons and began to sing and use the gourd rattle while his companion... 

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